Printable Activities for the Road - Last updated on 09/29/09!

[mickeysaver]

This list of Puzzles, Mazes, Coloring Pages, and more was borne from my desire to occupy my partner during our first long trip to WDW when we first stayed onsite back in 2002. The activity book that I created was definately enjoyed and I had shared those links that I had used to create it here. Since that time, many others have enjoyed making their own activity books and have added links to other sites to help others to create their own books too. Thanks to everyone that has contributed! Have fun y'all! Oh, and someone asked about where they could get laminating done and my personal favorite spot for that it Kinkos because they can bind the pages together into a book too.

Do it yourself Puzzle Maker: Word Search, Criss-Cross, Double Puzzles, Fallen Phrases, Math Squares, Mazes, Letter Tiles, Cryptograms, Number Blocks, and Hidden Messages http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/

The Mouse For Less Word Searches: http://www.themouseforless.com/downl...rdSearch.shtml

Disney's Activity Pages: http://disney.go.com/activities/

DisneyZone Word Searches: http://www.disneyzone.net/puzzle.htm

Cartoons & Comics Word Search: http://www.debidawn.com/cartoonws.htm

More Disney Colouring Pages: http://www.angelfire.com/on/disneycolourbook/ & http://www.geocities.com/nancys_disn...Colorpage.html

Disney Word Searches, Color Pages, and more, even holiday themed: http://www.disneyclips.com/onthesite/sitemap.html

A whole lot of Pooh Fun: http://yoarra.250x.com/pooh.html

Disney Christmas Coloring Pages: http://www.fun-with-pictures.com/dis...ing-pages.html

Cartoon Character Coloring Pages: http://www.coloring.ws/cartoons.htm

Misc Printables & Activities: http://www.123kidzarea.com/

Coloring Book Fun: http://www.coloringbookfun.com/

http://www.elibs.com/e/w/categories: To print, you need to choose the category, then click on "Title" of choice. Then when the "fill in" boxes appear, scroll down the page and look just to the right of the fill in boxes inside the purple box, and you will see a printer icon that says, "Print This". This brings up a non-filled-in printer version so you can print the page out for your trip!

Going to SeaWorld too? Check these out!: http://www.seaworld.org/fun-zone/fun-guides/index.htm

Originally Posted by ilovevacations

Also add coloring books to this activity list.

http://www.coloringfinder.com/disneycoloring.html

Originally Posted by MouseEarsJenny

Wanted to share this Mickey's Road Trip Booklet. We used it for our past two trips, but I'm not finding it on HP's website anymore - good thing I saved a copy in Microsoft Word! I uploaded it to mediafire if you want to download it:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=9...4e75f6e8ebb871

It's super cute!

Originally Posted by familyfirsttimer

Just found this link and it is the actual Disney site, there is a TON of coloring sheets you can choose and the quality of the pages is really great! Also has some games.etc to print
http://disney.go.com/magicartist/coloring/index.html

Have fun!

Originally Posted by cfbarker

Downloads for Kids: http://www.themouseforless.com/downloads.shtml#kids
includes Disney related educational materials!
Downloads for your Trip: http://www.themouseforless.com/downloads.shtml#trip
Christine

Originally Posted by K9pal

Sorry if this has already been posted. TONS of Disney coloring pages!
http://www.4kraftykidz.com/disneymoviecoloring.html

Originally Posted by pezheadval

Ginevra's Page has tons of great Disney Coloring pages!!!
http://lnx.ginevra2000.it/Disney/color_index.htm
WARNING: Slow load due to music!

Originally Posted by Karibeth19

Yesterday, we were running errands and listening to Radio Disney (Like always!), and we must have heard Corbin Bleu's "Push It to the Limit" at least 5 times throughout the afternoon. My husband and I were joking that on our upcoming road trip to Disney we should keep a tally of what songs we hear and how many times we hear them on the 17 hour drive. That gave me a great idea; Radio Disney Bingo!!!! I went to the Radio Disney website, and copied down their list of the Top 30 songs. I made sure to include the songs that we hear all the time lately, like Hannah Montana and High School Musical. I then did a search and found this site that generates bingo cards: http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/bingo/ I plugged in the songs, and it prints out the card! I shuffled them around a few times, and took out a few songs and put in new ones, so now I have about 12 cards printed out, one for each of us for a total of 4 games. I figure it will take about an hour or so to play, listening for the songs on our cards, and marking them out when they are played. I will get some kind of treat to give to the winner, maybe food treats for DH and me, and Disney Dollars for DD. I think it will be fun, and hopefully help to pass the time, since DD can still read or play her video games while playing (during the songs and commercials).

Originally Posted by bobcat

Here are a couple that I have used.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/cra...cartravelbook/

http://www.dltk-kids.com/coloring.htm

Originally Posted by bartleby1

Here is another site that has some printable car activities such as travel bingo, dots, tic tac toe, a scavenger hunt, song lyrics, a map of the US for the license plate game, etc.

http://www.momsminivan.com/printables.html

Enjoy! Debbie

Originally Posted by Auggietina

I don't think this site has been posted yet:

http://www.activitiesforkids.com/tra...avel_hints.htm

Originally Posted by JANNYANS

http://www.kidsturncentral.com/coloring.htm

http://www.kidprintables.com/puzzles/finishthis/

Halloween Printables: http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/hal...rint/index.htm

http://www.mickeyfriends.com/

Originally Posted by AmyK

a few other links that I found helpful:


Disney related ones:
http://disney.go.com/fairies/games/printables.html

http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/an...deeplink=games

http://www.cartooncritters.com/colrbynmber.htm

Non Disney ones, if you don't want them ONLY Disney:

http://www.printactivities.com/Seaso...rintables.html
(this one has a "mazes" link with mazes for each letter of the alphabet. I took the M one and put pix of Mickie and Minnie on there for example)

http://printables4kids.com/

http://freestuff4kids.net/

http://www.thekidzpage.com/colouring...ties/index.htm
(this has some fun word searches with names for each letter)

Originally Posted by desiab

Wanted to add another link. The license plate sheet is really nice.

Epson Travel pages

Originally Posted by wanna-b-Tink

I also like http://www.crayola.com . Lots of variety on their webpages.

Originally Posted by jtdl

Another great one that I use alot is www.nickjr.com. You can find travel activities, printables and activities/printables by age. I even found some stuff there for my teenage daughter.

Originally Posted by Claudia1

I always make personalized activity books for each child that we use at meals and around the parks. They are especially useful at the dinner table while we are waiting for our food or while waiting for parades or shows. I have tons and tons of things collected over the years but some of the best are activities that don't need a link.

Here are some simple ones for kids and adults. You could print them up and bind them (at an office supple place) or just print up a single sheets and pull them out of your bag as needed. These can be stopped and continued at a later time.

CROSSWORDS/SCRABBLE (1 or more players)
Use a piece of graph paper and select a topic like "Disney Treats and Eats" Disney Charcaters", "Disney Rides and Attractions", "Magic Kingdom", etc..... Link as many words that you can to fit the topic. You can play it like Scrabble & take turns or you can have a sheet for each player. For scoring, I make it very simple. The letters M, I, C, K, E, and Y are worth 3 points. All other vowels are 2 pts each and all other consonants are 1 pt each.

It will look something like this as the game goes on:

S
PLUTO
A
MICKEY
E

You could also just take plain graph paper with you and pick a topic when you need it without needing to print anything before you go.


MAKING WORDS (1 or more players)
Provide a simple sentence and let them make as many words as possible from the letters. Some favs are "Sue (use your child's name) found the Yeti!", "Small World Rocks!", "Mickey Likes Well-mannered Kids" etc.... The older kids enjoy funny sentences. An oldie but a goodie.

MAKING LISTS (1 or more players)
The possibilities are endless! Make lists of the sit-down restaurants, the rides & attractions in each park, animated Disney movies, Disney mountains (splash, space, .....), Disney treats from the ice cream cart, dolls in Small World, etc....

RIDE DESCRIPTIONS:
Draw and/or describe Expedition Everest, RnR, Great Movie ride, etc... This is actually a great memory tool. As they try to remember each turn, it brings back fun memories.

DESIGN YOU OWN RIDE OR ATTRACTION:
With a blank piece of paper, create an original design. Imagine the theming, characters, intensity, vehicles, etc....

TALLY OF EVENTS:
Pick something to look for before you leave for the day like red shoes, a smiling CM, someone wearing something with a Donald Duck on it, etc.... The family member who spots the most gets to pick the topic for the next day (or you can choose your own prize).

MATCHING PICTURES (great for pre-schoolers)
Copy FREE pic of Disney characters (clip-art is a good source) to match or cut out pics from a Disney catalog or other source. I like to copy vacation pics of the kids to match with a Disney pic of their fav ride or another pic of them at WDW. These can be used in two ways.
1) Paste them into two columns. Examples are Woody/Buzz, Mickey/Minnie, JoJo/Goliath, a Dalmation/Cruella, Nemo/Dory, etc..... The possibilities are endless. Your child can draw a line from one to the other to make a match.

If you have a copier at home, you can cut out the pics and lightly tape them onto a blank piece of paper, make a copy, then take them off and rearrange them for multiple worksheets.

2) Copy or paste one picture of the pair onto a blank piece of paper. Put the matching pics in a zip bag and pull them out to match with the paper. Can be an individual game or more than one playing.

PHOTO SCAVENGER HUNT
This takes a lot of time to do but it can also take a lot of time & energy to play.

Copy, paste, and crop Disney pics or your own vacation pics so that the location or item is not easily recognizible. Be sure to make a master list because it is easy to forget what the pic is! The kids really like to see their own pics on this game.

DOT-TO-DOT SHEETS
Take any reproducible coloring sheet and use White-out to "erase" a part of the pic like Mickey's ears, Pooh's balloon, Lightening McQueen, etc... You can choose the level of difficulty based on your own child.

Use a marker to add dots for the outline and put numbers by each dot. For younger kids, I usually put a star by number 1 so that they know where to start. Make copies of the sheets once they are dotted and numbered.

PUZZLES
Cut up a photo of your child at WDW or a character pic and put the pieces in a zip bag. Them your child re-assemble the puzzle pieces.

Some of my ideas may seem corny but each family is different. Ours likes to have something to do and anything that involves thinking is useful. None of my kids enjoy coloring pages.

[the4moores]

Thanks for taking the time to list all of these links. They are great!:D

[trustknoone]

Thanks so much for the great links, found tons of stuff to print for DD. There's enough stuff here to keep her happy for several trips.

Angela

[bobcat]

Thank You! There are some that I haven't seen. I usually make up a folder with puzzles and such for the car trip and this year I found a folder with a legal pad and file pockets on one side. I plan on filling some of the pockets with blank paper and the rest with puzzles and coloring pages.

[Clover9990]

Thank you! What a cute idea...this will be perfect when my kids are a little bit older, and even to print out for my DH now to get him more into the Disney spirit!!

[bobcat]

Here are a couple that I have used.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/cra...cartravelbook/

http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/cartoons/disney.html

[pReTtYpRiNcEsS]

thanks for the great links!

[BounceyOne]

My printer is buzzing away
Thanks!

[Disneybabe]

Thanks so much for your post and for taking the time to give us the links. I printed some great puzzles for our long drive down. Thank you!!

[ennazus]

Thanks!!

[momo4]

Thank you all so much. My printer is moving as I write! I have been looking for things like this for a while, but so much it's overwhelming. Thank you for making it easier.

Does anyone know of any hidden picture type printables./ I was thinking along the "Where's Waldo" type pages, but w/ Disney characters. Hidden Mickey,perhaps?

Thanks again!!

[mickeysaver]

Wow! I'm glad you folks are finding this stuff useful. Have a great trip! Mickey

[Clover9990]

Bumping...I've had this post in my favorites for quite awhile, so I figured some of you can benefit from it this summer, too! Thanks, OP!

[lalapodip]

I was going to post a thanks for posting the great links, and then I saw how old this link was, and that it was bumped! So, thanks for the post AND for the BUMP!!

[always dreamin']

What an excellent idea this is! Thank you so much!